Crab angle is the amount of correction an aircraft must be turned into the wind in order to maintain the desired course.
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From a spectator's point of view, watching large aircraft banking at low altitudes and taking big crab angles during their final approaches was quite thrilling.
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The sideslip method for crosswind landings is not suitable for long-winged and low-sitting aircraft such as gliders, where instead a crab angle ( heading into the wind ) is maintained until a moment before touchdown.
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